2025-05-02

Piaggio turned its cute follow robot into a Star Wars droid

Since 2017, the Vespa-maker Piaggio's Fast Forward division has been exploring a unique way to cut down on car trips: Building robots that can follow you around and carry your stuff. We called it [...]

2025-12-10

OpenAI's house of cards seems primed to collapse

OpenAI is in a far less commanding position than it was following the public release of ChatGPT a few short years ago. Back in 2022, the sudden popularity of ChatGPT sent Google into a panic. The com [...]

2025-06-13

Anthropic researchers teach language models to fine-tune themselves

Researchers working with AI company Anthropic have developed a new method called Internal Coherence Maximization (ICM) that fine-tunes language models using only their own outputs. The approach could [...]

2025-10-06

Rabbit plots its redemption arc

The story of the Rabbit R1 is a cautionary tale. The AI gadget stole CES 2024, thanks in large part to its cutesy design and Rabbit's promise that it could do nearly everything a smartphone could [...]

2025-10-24

Thinking Machines challenges OpenAI's AI scaling strategy: 'First superintelligence will be a superhuman learner'

While the world's leading artificial intelligence companies race to build ever-larger models, betting billions that scale alone will unlock artificial general intelligence, a researcher at one of [...]

2025-05-02

This Star Wars Droid Follows You Around to Carry Your Bag for $2,875

The new Gita Mini acts and sounds like a Star Wars astromech droid, but it can't co-pilot spacecraft. [...]

2025-03-26

The best language learning apps for 2025

There’s a good chance learning a new language is one of your New Year’s resolutions, unless you’re hoping Google Translate will be enough for your next international adventure. Either way, you†[...]

2025-08-05

Google DeepMind's Genie 3 can dynamically alter the state of its simulated worlds

At start of December, Google DeepMind released Genie 2. The Genie family of AI systems are what are known as world models. They're capable of generating images as the user — either a human or, [...]

2025-11-11

Meta’s SPICE framework lets AI systems teach themselves to reason

Researchers at Meta FAIR and the National University of Singapore have developed a new reinforcement learning framework for self-improving AI systems. Called Self-Play In Corpus Environments (SPICE), [...]